Danny,

> Medium :)
> 
> Because to do it right you'd need to make sure you could match all the
IP
> addresses a machine is accepting, and in both forms (with and without
[])
> I don't think it is such simple matter to correctly identify all the
> addresses, whereas it is common practice to configure server daemons
with
> lists of addresses to accept (see httpd for example).

I concur with you about the difficulty of matching all the IP addresses.
That should be much easier once we migrate to Java 1.4 (using the
NetworkAddress class), but for now it's definitely a problem for complex
IP setups.  However for simple IP setups I think this change would make
life substantially easier.

I'm not sure why we'd have to support both forms.  From my reading of
the RFC, only the bracketed form is strictly correct for IP addresses.

How about we make it an optional behavior with a config param?

--Peter  



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